The Wachovia Complex in Philadelphia has been ranked fifth in the world and second in the United States for highest-grossing facilities for the first six months of 2009, according to Venues Today, a leading publication covering the sports and entertainment industry.

The Wachovia Complex includes the 21,000-seat Wachovia Center and the soon-to-close 19,000-seat Wachovia Spectrum.

Only Madison Square Garden in New York City grossed more among U.S. facilities, the magazine found. It was third worldwide.

The Jonas Brothers rocked a sold-out Wachovia Center in Philadelphia on Thursday.

Madison Square Garden held 54 events and grossed $34,382,025 by drawing 583,879 patrons during the same time frame.

The rankings are for arenas with at least 15,001 seats.

The O2 Arena in London was irst in the world, followed by the Air Canada Centre in Toronto; Madison Square Garden; AcerArena in Sydney, Australia; Wachovia Complex; the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla.; Staples Center in Los Angeles; Philips Arena in Atlanta; Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas; and Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta.

JOHN J. MOSER has been around long enough to have seen the original Ramones in a small club in New Jersey, U2 from the fourth row of a theater and Bob Dylan's born-again tours. But he also has the number for All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler on his cell phone, wrote the first story ever done on Jack's Mannequin and hung out in Wiz Khalifa's hotel room.

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JODI DUCKETT: As The Morning Call's assistant features editor responsible for entertainment, she spends a lot of time surveying the music landscape and sizing up the Valley's festivals and club scene. She's no expert, but enjoys it all — especially artists who resonated in her younger years, such as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Tracy Chapman, Santana and Joni Mitchell.

KATHY LAUER-WILLIAMS enjoys all types of music, from roots rock and folk to classical and opera. Music has been a constant backdrop to her life since she first sat on the steps listening to her mother’s Broadway LPs when she was 2. Since becoming a mother herself, she has become well-versed on the growing genre of kindie rock and, with her son in tow, can boast she has seen a majority of the current kid’s performers from Dan Zanes to They Might Be Giants.

STEPHANIE SIGAFOOS: A Jersey native raised in Northeast PA, she was reared in a house littered with 8-tracks, 45s and cassette tapes of The Beatles, Elvis, Meatloaf and Billy Joel. She also grew up on the sounds of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and can be found traversing the countryside in search of the sounds of a steel guitar. A fan of today's 'new country,' she digs mainstream/country-pop crossovers like Lady Antebellum and Sugarland and other artists that illustrate the genre's diversity.